Booze is back! Alcohol lobby thrilled John Boehner will be new Speaker

Bush set a dry tone for Republicans in Washington. But Tuesday’s election and the rise of a certain orange-hued Ohioan put the party back in Republican Party. Prepare for John Boehner, uncorked. Plus, our gallery of drinkers from FDR to Nixon.

There’s a new Speaker coming to the House of Representatives, and unlike grandma Nancy Pelosi, who famously curled up with a tub of chocolate ice cream after long days on the Hill, Republican leader John Boehner has a different poison: booze.